In his latest tirade in the vaunted pages of the New York Times, Paul Krugman makes the inaccurate assertion that the main line of Republican attack against a health care takeover is that it would “undermine Medicare.”
He argues that such an approach is “utterly at odds both with the party’s traditions and with what conservatives claim to believe.”
I don’t profess to know the line-up of conservative thinkers that Krugman has sought out on this issue, but those in my reading diet focus primarily on the costs associated with government-run health care and the expansion of government power. Cuts to Medicare, if mentioned at all, are far down the list of top objections.
For Krugman to claim the Medicare issue is the cornerstone of GOP opposition is absurd at best, an outright lie at worst…or, more than likely, a combination of the two.
